Family groups (a male ... These group members even greet one another with a prairie dog kiss or nuzzle. Young pups are very playful and can often been seen romping near their burrows.

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DESCRIPTION: The black-tailed prairie dog is a daytime-active, medium-sized rodent, ranging in length from 12 to 15 inches, including a three- to four-inch tail. Its weight ranges from 1.5 to three ...

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Prairie dogs' sociable nature allows them to form close-knit family groups and work cooperatively to warn of danger through a variety of barks. It's these calls that earned the prairie dog its name — ...

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The family and others are at the site most summer days ... They regularly dust thousands of prairie dog burrows with flea treatment to keep insect-borne sylvatic plague at bay. And every fall, they ...

A touching story of love, loss and fate has gone viral after a woman shared how she believes her late family dog sent them a new companion. The emotional journey has garnered 3.3 million views on ...

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At the Lake Superior Zoo you can find community everywhere. However, there’s no community as organized as the prairie dogs. Zoo keeper Jessica Kretsch says, “they’ll have little colonies and ...

Vondracek has reported on prairie dog lawsuits in the Black Hills to federal education policy in Washington D.C. A native of Faribault County, Minnesota, he’s a graduate of the University of ...